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It’s Not You, It’s NBC: the Great Media Breakup
Comcast splits from NBCUniversal as media companies realize bigger isn’t better.
There’s a Global Shortage of a Crucial Material. You’re Using It Right Now. It’s About to Get Worse.
The A.I. boom and the Iran war are driving demand for chips to unprecedented levels—leading to bigger price tags for your gadgets.
Is the Fed Having a Greenspanaissance?
Alan Greenspan died this week at the age of 100, but his legacy lives on with the Fed’s current chairman.
RFK Jr. wants you to get more preventive care. Some experts say that’s a bad idea.
But the health secretary has allies among some patient advocates and makers of tests that detect disease.
Residents in Congo cling to hope as Ebola treatment trial begins
Survival will be tracked for 28 days after starting treatment
Conservatives rage over re-funding of Planned Parenthood
Despite the restoration of Medicaid funding for health care services — but not abortions — dozens of closed clinics are not likely to reopen.
Here’s why your health insurer is sounding more like RFK Jr.
Insurers are embracing the health secretary’s Make America Healthy Again movement as the GOP looks to cut health care costs.
Poll: Everyone has a different idea of what counts as MAHA
The POLITICO Poll shows that the Make America Healthy Again umbrella includes people with opposing ideologies and different politics.
When Church Was a Queer Space
Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven.
Remembering, with the People of MCC San Francisco, AIDS Still Isn’t Over.
The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over.
What Happens When You Organize Church Around AIDS – and AIDS Changes?
The AIDS cocktail opens new possibilities. And MCC San Francisco tries to use the experience of AIDS to make bigger social change.
The Church’s Pastor Gets Diagnosed with AIDS. And the Church Wonders How Much They Might Lose.
The church’s minister gets sick and everyone knows it.
A Church Romance Between a Hula Dancer and a Lumbersexual Blossoms in a Dangerous Time.
The church’s “it couple” faces AIDS, caregiving, and loss as part of a pair, part of families, and part of a community.
Albania’s Flamingo Revolution: Protests Against Kushner-Trump Luxury Resort Could Bring Down Gov’t
Plans for a luxury resort in an ecologically sensitive area have set off more than a month of protests in Albania, where thousands have taken to the streets to oppose the megaproject backed by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. The Flamingo Revolution — named for its feared impact on migratory birds — began as an environmental protest but has now turned into anger at the entire political system, threatening to bring down the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama.
Evernote Forever
It looks like Bending Spoons’ bet on nostalgia brands like AOL, Vimeo, and Evernote is playing off after its big IPO this week.
What’s Behind the Latest National Guard Surge in D.C.
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Donald Trump summoned the National Guard to Washington, D.C., last August in an attempt to “rescue” the city from “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” Since then, the number of soldiers in the capital has ebbed and flowed as states have lent their own Guardsmen to the cause.
The Sports Overload Is Here
This summer’s lineup of sporting events has been an embarrassment of riches. This morning, the No. 1 men’s tennis player in the world (Jannik Sinner) and the winningest men’s tennis player of all time (Novak Djokovic) played in the semifinal of the biggest tennis tournament in the world (Wimbledon). In the afternoon, Spain and Belgium are kicking off their World Cup quarterfinal match.
The Hidden Cost of Optimizing Everything
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Modern life is built to make things easier, faster, and more efficient.
The Timidity of America’s Top Generals
What is the role of a general in a democracy? Many of today’s military leaders have a very particular answer: Focus on tactics, carry out orders, and otherwise shut up.
This is not what America’s top officers have always done. The country’s most senior generals and admirals are expected to provide unvarnished military counsel to the president and swear an oath to defend the Constitution.
What The Catcher in the Rye Taught a Teenage Girl
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Around the time I turned 15, I was convinced that the only person who really got me was a 17-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield. Although Holden is fictional, the protagonist of J. D. Salinger’s classic novel The Catcher in the Rye felt three-dimensional to me.
“Exposing Instagram’s Darkest Secret”: BBC’s Divya Arya on Ads for Child Sex Abuse Material in India
A new investigation from the BBC is accusing Instagram of running paid ads in India promoting child sexual abuse material. BBC senior correspondent Divya Arya explains how Instagram’s AI-powered review process frequently fails to flag content suggesting illegal and abusive activity, and how the platform’s profit-driven algorithms boost accounts paying to advertise this content.
FOIA Under Attack: Landmark Transparency Law Turns 60; Fed Gov’t Blocking More Documents Than Ever
This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act, the landmark government transparency law that has helped reveal and publicize critical information about everything from the Vietnam War to FBI surveillance to CIA torture. For decades, FOIA has played a crucial role in uncovering and rectifying government wrongdoing.
“Now or Never”: DSA & Justice Democrats on Changing the Democratic Party, Mamdani, Gaza & More
As a rose-tinted wave of progressives and democratic socialists win Democratic primaries across the United States, we take a look at two of the organizations behind this recent slate of successful electoral campaigns: the Democratic Socialists of America and Justice Democrats.
From Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier in New York to Melat Kiros in Colorado to Janeese Lewis George in Washington, D.C.
Money Talks: The Morality Market
Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth explains what we learn when markets are shaped by big ethical questions.
It’s Not You, It’s NBC: the Great Media Breakup
Comcast splits from NBCUniversal as media companies realize bigger isn’t better.
There’s a Global Shortage of a Crucial Material. You’re Using It Right Now. It’s About to Get Worse.
The A.I. boom and the Iran war are driving demand for chips to unprecedented levels—leading to bigger price tags for your gadgets.
Is the Fed Having a Greenspanaissance?
Alan Greenspan died this week at the age of 100, but his legacy lives on with the Fed’s current chairman.
Dave & Buster’s Is Fighting to Survive. Its Hail Mary Idea Could Be a Lifesaver. It Might Also Change the Brand Forever.
In the face of a financial quagmire, why not throw up a few glow sticks?
RFK Jr. wants you to get more preventive care. Some experts say that’s a bad idea.
But the health secretary has allies among some patient advocates and makers of tests that detect disease.